It hardly seems right to do a superstar spotlight on just 260 Booger Butt. It's not that he isn't a four-legged bucking celebrity or that he doesn't deserve all of the limelight, it just seems strange.

It is like Felix without Oscar, Bert without Ernie or Batman without Robin.

Except when he is loaded in the chute or bucking on the arena floor, short-go dynamo Booger Butt is practically attached at the hip to Chicken on a Chain. Or rather Booger Butt's hip is attached to Chicken's lower leg. There is some serious size disparity between the two bovine best friends.

“Booger looks small because he's in the same stable with Chicken, and Chicken is 17 hands!” explained owner Jeff Robinson. “Booger is all muscle, I don't think you could find a bull that was more solid muscle than Booger. Next to any other bull, he wouldn't look so small.”

“They do look like two different species almost,” confirmed co-owner Mike Tedesco. “The PBR announcers even commented on it when Chicken and Booger when in a show opening at a Built Ford Tough Series event. The lights were low and then there in the spotlight in the arena are Chicken and Booger side-by-side.”

Booger Butt may not be as big as Chicken, and he many not have his buddy's credentials (2007 PBR World Champion Bucking Bull), but make no mistake — Booger is no small potatoes.

The Robinson, Larry the Cable Guy and Tedesco bucker is a serious player. Booger Butt, formerly known as Slim Slam, bucks to win.

A short-round bull, Booger has been matched up against the world's best. The outcome is usually that he is victorious and the rider is left with a mouth full of dirt. One of those recent ground-eaters was Ednei Caminhas.

Caminhas, the 2002 PBR World Champion was matching up against Booger Butt in the short go. Booger Butt bucked off the champ in what looked to be a pretty bad wreck (one of those where the arena goes silent for a moment). Luckily, Caminhas just ended up with a knot on his hip the size of a small state — that resembled a black, red and blue topographical map of that same state.

Later that evening, Caminhas sat forlornly holding his crutches at his gate at Chicago's O'Hare Airport waiting on a delayed flight. I happened to be passing by with Tedesco and Bull Pen marketing manager Cindy Gotoski.

15 minutes and a “borrowed” wheelchair later, the four of us were all passing the time at the airport Chili's. We had a nice meal and Caminhas kept shaking his head at his defeat and talking about what a good bull Booger Butt was. “ didn't know that much about that bull,” said Caminhas, “but now I know he is good, really good!” When it was Tedesco's time to leave to catch his plane we all bid him farewell. It was only after Tedesco left that we realized that Caminhas had no clue that he was one of Booger Butt's owners. That is how you know you have a great bull, heaps of praise from a World Champion who doesn't even know it is your bull!

The few riders who have made it to the whistle on Booger Butt include Robson Palermo, Travis Briscoe and Wiley Petersen. Both Palermo and Petersen had scores in the 90s.

“I think his most memorable ride was when Wiley rode him in round seven of the PBR World Finals and won the round on him,” said Robinson.

Booger Butt was breed by Terry Williams and is a Panhandle Slim son out of a Beutler cow. “I bought him from Mark Reed at the end of 2006 as a 4-year-old. I thought he had a lot of gas and a lot of potential.” said Robinson. “Now I feel like he's reached his maximum potential and I've been pleasantly surprised.”

Part of reaching his potential was changing his delivery. “After the ride with Wiley, Cody Lambert and I got to talking about how much he buckled like Slim. Slim was a left-hand delivery; Booger had been right. Once we changed his delivery at the beginning of this year is when he got more consistent.”

Booger Butt will be available for some live breeding next year, and there will also be semen available out of him. Chicken is currently being used for breeding, making it a distinct possibility that some day two of their sons may also be side-by-side, on a truck rolling down the road to a PBR event.

For more information on Booger Butt and his big buddy Chicken on a Chain, visit www.robinsonbulls.com or www.gangsterbuckingbulls.com